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"Enter the Belly of the Beast," reads the sign on the door to her cramped room in the bowels of Sever Hall. Vikki Merriman has spent so much time in the Beast lately that her pine-green sleeping bag has become a fixture there. While long incubation hours in Sever...
Again, before touring graduate schools this week, I thought that Ruskin was the big winner. So, with Ruskin in mind, it took me by surprise that ambition kept popping up in my graduate school visits. Conversation after conversation suggested that it was important to have a little fire in your...
Employers are heeding the advice, sometimes too well. The University of New Hampshire suspended a professor of technical writing, J. Donald Silva, in 1993 for classroom remarks he had made the previous year. Besides other suggestive comments, Silva had compared the focus required for writing to that demanded by sex...
That raspy drawl, the salt-and-pepper hair, a doughnut-stuffed belly hanging over his belt. Others in Primary Colors tried to steer clear of real-life inspiration; John Travolta became a Bill Clinton clone. It took weeks to master the familiar vocal cadence and body language, but the feel...
Further along Plympton Street sits another such bookselling outpost. The Starr Bookshop, tucked into the belly of the Lampoon Castle. Starr sells used books exclusively, which merits distinction among poor starving artists that even Grolier doesn't garner. Unlike fellow Mclntyre and Moore Booksellers (just down Mount Auburn Street), Starr...